School board trustees don’t have wide mandate
Re: How to break the cycle of school closings, Feb. 3
Randall Denley’s column contains at least one faulty premise, namely that, somehow, more local control of education taxes and how they are spent would be more “democratic.”
While most taxpayers are eligible to vote in school board elections, the majority of those who do vote are parents with kids in the school system.
Some would argue that people who don’t vote should not complain if those elected take decisions with which they don’t agree. Others would argue that those who aren’t familiar with the issues are …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
